Talk:Hooker Emerald Brooch

"Conquistadors?"
The actual fact is, there's no history whatsoever to this emerald before it turned up in the Sultan's possession in the later 19th century. --Wetman (talk) 10:49, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * See page 125 in the cited book. The passage cited is as follows:
 * "...Yet another great emerald with ties to turkey is the 75-carat Hooker Emerald Brooch, now part of the Gem and Mineral Collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. This Colombian emerald is not only exceptionally large, but relatively free of inclusions, extremely unusual in a stone of this size. It was shipped out from Colombia by the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth or seventeenth century..." (emphasis added) GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 17:02, 5 April 2010 (UTC)